The Word Balance

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What is one important feature that all of us would like to achieve within our lives? While there are a lot of answers that could fit into that question, one answer that comes to my mind is the word balance. Balance is an extraordinary concept that is helpful for many people in their home lives along with their work and school lives with great results. Though how would a person go about achieving this balance and what tools or advice would they need to learn in order to succeed? The most important part of having a balanced life is to have organization and that can be done in a variety of ways, such as using a calendar, a set schedule with specific times or time frames, and how to avoid distractions that could cause havoc throughout the day. …show more content…

Calendars are helpful of keeping up with days and they can also be used to write down important tasks that need to be completed on a certain day. Therefore, if I have some important tasks to take care of and don’t want to have the risk of forgetting something, I would just write them down on a calendar on the date that those important tasks need to take place. Furthermore, this is also a great way to keep up with schoolwork deadlines that require work to be turned in by a certain day. For example, I have an essay assignment that I need to work on and it’s due in 3 days. With a calendar, I can mark on the correct date that I need to turn in my essay and have it as a reminder whenever I look at it to remember not to forget to turn in my work for grading. Consequently, usage of a calendar has been a helpful way of keeping up with my school life and has also created further balance within all parts of my life as a whole, though using a calendar is only one way to achieve organization and overall balance in …show more content…

When I set to complete a task that has a possibility to have distractions around me when I’m working on it, I attempt to clear everything that could distract me away from my surroundings in the meantime. For the time that I work on school, I keep my tablet away from my desk and also only have what programs or sites I need to use opened on my Mac to accomplish my schoolwork for the day. Though in my case, sitting in silence is more distracting than calming, so I also have Spotify opened up on the Mac and have music playing while working. Having music on keeps me much more focused on what I need to work on during the few hours I use for school during the day. I also keep any potential distractions away while I work on the chore list for the day also, but there are less distractions to worry about while completing chores as opposed to the amount of distractions that I might have while at my desk doing schoolwork. The only distraction that could be present while doing chores would be the silence, and to solve that I would just put headphones on and turn on some music which is similar to what I do when I work on school for the day. Ultimately, just staying

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